Great quotes on education

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-Albert Einstein

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
-Maya Angelou

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
-Mark Twain

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-Anatole France

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
-George Washington Carver

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
-Chanakya

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
-A. Bartlett Giamatti

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
-Ray Bradbury

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-Victor Hugo

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
-Carl Rogers

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
-John Dewey

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
-John F. Kennedy

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant

The doer alone learneth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
-Robert Frost

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
-Rabindranath Tagore

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
-Walt Disney

Change is the end result of all true learning.
-Leo Buscaglia

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
-Erich Fromm

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
-Will Rogers

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
-Plato

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
-Clifford Stoll

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
-Alvin Toffler

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-John W. Gardner

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
-Carl Sagan

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
-Aeschylus

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
-Daniel J. Boorstin

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-Abigail Adams